VCSF09 Preview: Brent Kelly Workshop

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Deploying Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2or IBM Lotus Sametime 8.x in Multi-Vendor Telephony Environments

E. Brent Kelly, Ph.D.bkelly@wainhouse.com

Wainhouse Research, LLCwww.wainhouse.com

CHOICES INUNIFIED COMMUNICATIONSSOLUTIONS

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Tutorial Outline

Unified Communications Definitions

Strategies for Unified Communications

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Architecture

Integrating Telephony into Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Microsoft UC Clients

IBM Lotus Sametime Architecture

Integrating Telephony into Sametime 8.5

Sametime Unified Telephony

Sametime UC Clients Analysis, Conclusions,

Opinions

Part 1 Part 2

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What do you do… If you have a homogeneous

communications environment, you can Use that vendor’s UC tool Use Microsoft OCS or IBM Sametime

If you have a heterogeneous communications environment… then what? Can use Avaya Aura, Nortel ACE, Siemens

OpenScape, … The market is choosing IBM or Microsoft

Microsoft and IBM provide not just similar, but the SAME functionality across telephony and mobility environments!

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Enterprise Voice Architecture:PBX in Front

Mediation Server

PSTNNetwork

Enterprise PBX(TDM or Hybrid)

IP or DigitalPhones

Communicator Clients ActiveDirectory

Gateway

Mediation Server and the gateway can be single box or separate.

Gateway Providers•Aculab•AudioCodes•Cisco•Dialogic•Ferrari•NEC•Nortel•Nuera•Quintum Technologies•Tango•VegaStream

EnterpriseOCS

Deployment

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Multivendor Deployment

TelephonyGateway

SIP

PSTNNetworkIP or Digital

Phones

Vendor 1IP PBX

Analog orDigital Phones

SIP

Vendor 2Legacy

PBX

VP

VP

SIP

Telephony ApplicationServer

Telephony Control Server

Gateway

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Additional Topics

Server Operating System Options LDAP Directory Options List and Street Costs OCS and Sametime Futures Deployment Considerations

Please join us at VoiceCon San Francisco 2009where we will discuss choices in Unified Communicationsfocusing on Microsoft OCS and IBM Sametime